The Mackinac Bridge connects the peninsulas. The Upper Peninsula (often called "the U.P.") is separated from the Lower Peninsula by the Straits of Mackinac, a five-mile (8 km) channel that joins Lake Huron to Lake Michigan. The Lower Peninsula resembles the shape of a mitten, and comprises a majority of the state's land area. Its name derives from a gallicized variant of the original Ojibwe word ᒥᓯᑲᒥ ( mishigami), meaning "large water" or "large lake". Metro Detroit is among the nation's most populous and largest metropolitan economies.
Its capital is Lansing, and its largest city is Detroit. With a population of nearly 10.12 million and an area of nearly 97,000 sq mi (250,000 km 2), Michigan is the 10th-largest state by population, the 11th-largest by area, and the largest by area east of the Mississippi River. It is bordered by Minnesota to the northwest, Wisconsin to the southwest, Indiana and Ohio to the south, and Lakes Superior, Huron, and Erie (which border the Canadian province of Ontario) to the north and east. Michigan ( / ˈ m ɪ ʃ ɪ ɡ ən/ ( listen)) is a state in the Great Lakes region of the upper Midwestern United States.
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